Cathleen Balid

Cathleen Balid is a Filipina writer from New York. She is the Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of HaluHalo Journal, an international journal highlighting Southeast Asian youth. Outside of writing, she is passionate about representation in literature, advocacy through judicial reform, and alpacas.

Experience

Editorial
HaluHalo Journal. Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief.
Culinary Origami Journal. Executive Prose and Poetry Editor.
The Dawn Review. Prose and Poetry Editor.
Young Writers for Democratic Action. Youth Committee Member.
U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judicial Intern.
The Justice Institute @ the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York. Student Mentor.
Workshops
Fiction Techniques. Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program under Colleen Mayo.
Writing Love. Iowa Young Writers' Studio Residential Program under Nitya Rayapati.
Imagination & Fiction: Between Magical and the Real. Ellipsis Summer Writing Workshop under Zeynep Özakat.
Features and Interviews
Feature by AAPSU.
HaluHalo Journal Interview with Erin Entrada Kelly, Michelle Quach, and Vanessa Len.

Honors

Adroit Prize for Prose. Finalist.
Columbia College Chicago Young Authors Competition. 2nd Place in Fiction.
New York Times Summer Reading Contest. Runner-up and 2x Honorable Mention.
Roanoke Review High School Fiction & Poetry Contest. 1st Place in Fiction.
Ringling College of Art & Design Storytellers of Tomorrow Contest. 2nd Place in Literary Fiction.
Polyphony Lit Fall Contest. Finalist.
Best Small Fictions. Surging Tide Magazine. Nominee.
The Alliance for Young Writers and Artists. 2x Gold Key, 2x Silver Key, and 2x Honorable Mention.

Selected Publications

"Every Autumn" in Columbia College Chicago.
"Sweet Corn" forthcoming in COUNTERCLOCK Journal.
"Riv(ul)et" in Surging Tide Magazine, nominated for Best Small Fictions.
"Nanang" in the Roanoke Review and Kalopsia Literary Journal.
"Collector of Words" forthcoming in the Heritage Journal (print).